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Save that dollar in your pocket. Whether it’s in quarters, spare change or in a crumbled bill, make sure you hold on to that dollar. As it turns out, a single dollar, while pretty much worthless in the US, has a lot of value in other places of the world.…

In a fictional world where you are pitted against some diabolical creature or left defending planet Earth as a hero or villain (we’re not judging), you have the choice of any weapon, no matter if it’s fictional or if it’s…well, fictional. It sounds too good to be true, but yeah, you can choose from…

Being the upstanding Americans that we are, we already know where the stars and stripes on the US flag come from. And being Americans, we have no idea about the flags of other nations. Why does the Greek flag have nine stripes? Why is Nepal’s flag shaped so weird? Mozambique…is…

We’d all like to be James Bond (if we had the balls), but the fact is, being a super spy in the real world wouldn’t be nearly as fun. Why is that? Paperwork! Could you imagine the HR headaches that arise when your job involves killing people, procuring insane weapons…

The Gin Buck was a very famous cocktail in the Roaring Twenties making a comeback these days. We’ve been seeing quite a few drinks from this era popping back up on cocktail menus and now you can make one for yourself. The recipe is simple and delicious and the most…

When traveling to another country, there are some items that you know just won’t make it past the border: guns, explosives, illicit drugs, etc. But then there are seemingly benign items that certain countries consider public enemy number one. You can’t bring pencils into Tunisia?? How strong is Tunisia’s pencil…

Sure, spotting counterfeit watches on the streets of Chinatown is not a particularly hard task. (Protip: If you have to pay a dude on one corner before picking up your merchandise from a dude on another corner — and both repeatedly ask if you’re a cop — you’ve got yourself…

It’s nice when TV shows, movies, books and video games present fictional currencies to keep their fictional worlds completely separate from real-life, but it’s not always easy to tell exactly how much that fake money is worth. Hell, we have enough trouble figuring out how much a beer costs in…

On January 19,2006, NASA launched New Horizons, a space probe intended to study disgraced former planet (and current “dwarf planet”) Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper Belt. Earlier today, 9.5 years into its mission, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto and captured incredible high-resolution, never-before-seen photos of the…